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...heart attacks are rare among pre-menopausal females. Of the quarter of a million fatal heart attacks suffered annually among women, only 6,000 occur in those under the age of 65. Coronary heart disease in women "doesn't take off until menopause," says Dr. Mary-Ann Malloy, a cardiologist at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, "and in the past a woman's life expectancy didn't extend much longer than that...
...NEURORADIOLOGIST IN IOWA STUDies the swirling contours of his patient's cat scan and immediately books the man for surgery. An Atlanta cardiologist, glancing at an untouched bottle of heart pills, looks his patient in the eye and urges him to take his medicine. A psychiatrist notes the pallor on the face of an earthquake survivor in Armenia and counsels her on post-traumatic- stress disorder...
...stepped out of an L.L. Bean catalog, and he loves golf so much that he lives on a course outside Nashville. Cleve Francis, one of the few black country singers signed to a major label since Charley Pride in the '60s, is a 46-year-old cardiologist from the suburbs of Washington. Mary-Chapin Carpenter has a degree in American civilization from Brown University; she drew the idea for her highly successful When Halley Came to Jackson, about the appearance of Halley's comet in Mississippi, from a line in the memoirs of Eudora Welty. K.T. Oslin once made...
...hypertension. Stress and diet are known to affect high blood pressure. Racism may also play a role. But "there is so much excess hypertension in blacks that it's inconceivable to me that these factors alone are the ones that balance the equation upward," says Dr. Elijah Saunders, a cardiologist at the University of Maryland Medical System. Some researchers have even suggested that African Americans have inherited a greater sensitivity to salt. But any explanation along genetic lines will have to account for the fact that modern- day Africans do not appear to be particularly susceptible to high blood pressure...
Because of such conditions, the threat from dysentery, typhoid fever, cholera and other diseases brought on by consuming contaminated food and water is even greater than the threat of starvation. "Dysentery is the No. 1 killer in Iraq right now," says Arfan al-Hani, a suburban-Chicago cardiologist who led the Arab-American medical delegation. Hospitals across the country are admitting two to five times as many patients with gastroenteritis caused by waterborne infections as they did before the war. Some other infections, including salmonella and shigellosis, could be treated with simple antibiotics. But all the doctors can offer...